[GTALUG] Partitioning Question

[Jim Ruxton]

Thanks a lot . This worked perfectly. I've never used links in Windows
before. They call them Junctions for folders. I just copied over my
Documents and Download Directories to my D: drive and put Junctions on the
C drive to these after removing them from that drive. Thanks a lot for the
pointer.
Cheers,
Jim

On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 3:32 PM o1bigtenor via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 2:04 PM Jim Ruxton via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > I have a partitioning question I am hoping someone can help with. I have
> > 2 hard drives in my laptop , a SSD and a standard hard drive. I dual
> > boot Windows and Ubuntu. Here is an image of my partitions from gparted.
> > The top is my SSD and the bottom is my other drive.
> >
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u7Rcn1_W95Z1PlV122IhPdR1VXJFxkAJ/view?usp=sharing
> > <
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u7Rcn1_W95Z1PlV122IhPdR1VXJFxkAJ/view?usp=sharing
> >
> > .
> >
> >   My Linux system except for Home (which has it's own partition on the
> > other drive) is on the SSD as well as Windows.  I'm running out of room
> > on the Windows partition on the SSD. I have other partitions on the
> > other drive that has lots of space. Is there a way I can allocate some
> > of that to Windows? For example as you can see in the image I have an
> > ntfs data partition of 100 Gigs that is almost empty. Any way to take
> > some of that and share it with the Windows SSD partition? Otherwise what
> > would people recommend to give Windows more space based on what I have
> > available. I should also probably move some of my Linux out of the SSD
> > but not sure what? I assume if I do move stuff I would need to do it
> > from gparted running on a USB stick? Thanks for your suggestions.
> >
> Dunno if this is a 'good' idea but I've used this moving info from shorter
> term
> storage to longer term storage.
>
> Setup a similar directory on the drive that has space (dunno if M$ will
> let you
> do this) and then use scp to move all the directories and files. Next you
> setup
> a soft link from almost full to the empty (sort of) disk.
>
> I've been doing this from connecting files/directories from the single
> hard drive
> that is the operating system and the Raid-10 array which is where I want
> most everything that I don't want to lose.
>
> This might just be a 'hacky' solution and I really have no idea if it will
> work
> on M$ but it does get the job done.
>
> Regards
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